If you do not have any prior experience I would hire a manageable property by a manage company that has section 8 experience or if you are going to manage them, I would get it in a "C" location or better.  

This is when hiring or partnering comes into play.

Self-manage your first properties and consider hiring a property manager.

Hi Ellen, typically, to claim mileage deductions on your taxes for travel to properties, you would need to either own the property or it would need to be your job, like if you were hired as a property manager.

What tasks would you have them do if you were to hire one?

Hi all, For a rental home, tenant says bathroom floor keep getting wet, even though it is small amount. at first, they thought they dropped some water. after wiping water, however, it keep coming back and now they think there is some water leak. my plumber went to check and found no issue with bath sink. he thinks it must be shower leak. the shower was redone last year by a contractor, who i ended up firing since he did not show up to work later. anyway, i hired water damage restoration (Servpro) company to check how much damage there is now. unfortunately, based on my research, it is very hard to find source of shower leak. i am thinking of rebuilding shower. i hired a kitchen remodel contractor and he gave me two options; either fix shower pan only, or (optionally) rebuild shower as well. 

There are also many others, such as hiring kids.

They create the team and a plan, acquire, due diligence, take care of loan products (If needed), oversee construction/renovation, hire property manager (or run in house management,) take care of accounting/taxes/K1s, deal with closing or refinancing.An LP (limited partner) just puts in the funds (after hopefully vetting the GP and team) and keeps fingers crossed while earning mailbox money. 

Due lots of due diligence before hiring your next brokerage.

Because I live across the country, that would have cost me a lot to hire an electrician or handyman to buy and install them all.